Global Collaboration

Q1 What is a Global Collaborator?: Introduction

20. Global Collaboration

Introduction

One of the primary purposes of education is to prepare you for life, but innovations in technology are changing the world we live in fast. Will the jobs you think of today still exist in the future? How can you prepare for a job that doesn’t exist yet? 

The workforce of the future will need global collaboration skills to work with people from around the world to find solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges. Having strong global collaboration skills is one way you can prepare for the future.


I Can Statements

  • Understand how to successfully work with a team of my peers.
  • Communicate effectively  and respectfully with others.
  • Identify skills, tools, and resources for successful global collaboration.

MITECS  Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and

ISTE Standards for Students

1. Empowered Learner
a. Articulate and set personal learning goals, developing strategies leveraging technology to achieve them, and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes
d. Understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies

2. Digital Citizen
a. Cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world
b. Engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices

3. Knowledge Constructor
c. Curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts or solving authentic problems
d. Build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and

7. Global Collaborator
a. Use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and cultures